Terms of use

What the app is

Hawaiʻi Eats is a free guide to restaurants in Hawaii, made by Nicholas Soderstrom. It is provided as is, for personal use, without charge and without warranties of any kind.

Check before you go

Restaurants open, close, change their hours and change their menus, and many small counters close when the food runs out. Dishes, seasons and founding years are what each place or a named source said when we checked in October 2026. We work to keep the lists right, but we can't promise that any listing is current or complete. Call the restaurant before you make the trip.

Health inspections

Hawaiʻi Eats shows no inspection results and gives no grade. The Hawaii State Department of Health inspects restaurants and posts placards but publishes no results in bulk. Links to DOH go to its own site, which is responsible for what it shows; see how to look up a Hawaii restaurant inspection.

Other people's content

Ratings, reviews, hours and photos in each place card come from Apple Maps and are Apple's and its providers', under Apple's terms. Restaurant names and trademarks belong to their owners. James Beard Foundation and James Beard Award are trademarks of the James Beard Foundation. Hawaiʻi Eats is not affiliated with any restaurant, team, chain, award body or government agency.

Data sources and licenses

• Overture Maps Foundation places data: data from Meta, Microsoft, DAC and BrightQuery under the Community Data License Agreement, Permissive 2.0; data from Foursquare (© Foursquare Labs, Inc.) under the Apache License 2.0, with its notice; data from AllThePlaces under CC0 1.0. Island coastlines, 2020 Census places and town spellings from the Hawaii Statewide GIS Program and the U.S. Geological Survey (public domain).
• James Beard Foundation: award, nominee and semifinalist history and America's Classics, reported as facts.
• Plate lunch, poke, saimin, shave ice, malasadas, Hawaiian food, okazuya, musubi, loco moco, Lahaina reopenings and founding years: our own research, with a source recorded for every place.

More on each source: about Hawaiʻi Eats.

Corrections

If a listing is wrong, or you own a restaurant and want something fixed, email nick@eatsranked.com. We fix mistakes in the next update.

Liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss arising from use of the app or site, including a wasted drive to a closed restaurant.

Changes

We may update these terms; the current version and its date are always on this page. See also the privacy policy.